How does the communism that developed in the USSR and China relate to Marx’s vision?
Correct answer C. Opposite to the Marxian view
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What do sociologists using the evolutionary perspective look for?
Correct answer A. Patterns of change and development
According to Durkheim, what was an important component of social life?
Correct answer A. Social solidarity
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Anomie is a French term. What does it mean?
Correct answer B. Chaos
Who developed the interactionist perspective?
Correct answer A. G. H. Mead and C. H. Cooley
What did Durkheim’s ‘The Division of Labour in Society’ highlight as increasing?
Correct answer D. All of these
What does the interactionist perspective emphasise?
Correct answer D. All of the above
When workers formed unions and made management recognise they were not mere objects, theorists of formal organisations began to revise which approach?
Correct answer D. Both A and B
Who are the most prominent spokesmen of the functionalist perspective?
Correct answer D. All of the above
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How do structural functionalists describe society?
Correct answer C. A normative framework of roles and institutions
If a particular social change promotes a harmonious equilibrium, how is it described?
Correct answer B. Functional
What did Berger and Luckmann mean when they said that reality is socially constructed?
Correct answer C. People negotiate shared definitions of their situation and live according to these often forgetting that these social worlds are not fixed and external
What is the main idea of the conflict perspective?
Correct answer A. Class conflict and class exploitation are the prime forces of history
Which of these is NOT a characteristic of totalitarian societies?
Correct answer A. Freedom of movement for citizens
How should the different sociological perspectives be understood?
Correct answer D. Both B and C
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In 1999, which of these regions had the fewest telephone mainlines per 1,000 people?
Correct answer C. South Asia
In Marx’s theory, what does the mode of production mean?
Correct answer D. The organisation of a society's technical and human resources
What does the term ‘Second World societies’ refer to?
Correct answer B. Countries that industrialised under state central planning
Put the total GDPs of these countries in descending order (recent data).
Correct answer A. Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Portugal
In Merton’s terms, what is a person called who abandons the goal of material success but compulsively sticks to the institutional means?
Correct answer A. Ritualist